About this role
Job Summary
Western Midstream seeks a Commercial Ops Representative to join the Midstream scheduling organization located in The Woodlands, TX office. The position will focus on midstream scheduling for Western Midstream operated assets.
Required Qualifications
- Self-motivated and hardworking individual with the willingness/ability to work in a high energy environment Ability to develop/maintain critical relationships both internally and externally across diverse stakeholder groups on a 24/7 basis when on duty, including remaining in contact at night, and on weekends as needed.
- Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks and meet short deadlines while demonstrating a commonsense approach to problem solving Seeks additional responsibilities as learning progression occurs.
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office skills (including Excel, PowerPoint, & Word)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in gas/midstream scheduling, accounting, or revenue accounting.
Responsibilities
- Daily interaction with producers to adjust nominations from wellhead and residue/NGLs/crude markets to mitigate imbalances on WES operated system.
- Balance plant OBAs and monitor TIK shippers’ imbalances on gathering system.
- Monitor and balance NGL allocation on downstream pipes.
- Confirm all daily nomination activity on residue pipelines.
- Monitor Cygnet to ensure field is flowing efficiently and within contractual bounds.
- Work with field operations to make set-point changes to physically deliver according to confirmed nominations.
- Calculate contractual or actual plant shrink, plant fuel, and field fuel.
- Coordinate with WES personnel, working interest owners, production operators, and pipeline personnel on operational issues.
- Notify downstream marketing of critical upstream and downstream issues prior to morning trading activity whenever possible.
- Coordinate with Commercial Development and manage events impacting our business; new wells, new lines being laid, company divestitures, outages, processing elections, etc.
- Maintain adequate daily and monthly records, inclusive of operational events, force majeure, etc. for audit trail and backup coverage.
- Coordinate with midstream accounting on any billing and reconciliation issues.
- Provide end-of-the-month reports to accounting and customers Provide weekly reports to customers.
- Maintain EMK3 system daily.
- Establish and maintain industry contacts and relationships with customers, pipelines, operators, and other working interest owners.
- Cross train with other team members to enable vacation and weekend coverage.
- Provide monthly estimates/availabilities to downstream marketing.
- Commercial Ops will require evening, weekend, and holiday on call duties.
- Provide upper management with reports to reflect actual vs forecasted flows.
- Analysis and suggest ethane rejection or recovery for operated plants by monitoring operations and economics.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred in Business/Accounting/Finance or related field.
- High School Diploma or equivalent required.
- Relocation: This position is not eligible for relocation.
- Travel
Requirements
- Travel will be required up to 5%.
- Work Schedule: This position follows a hybrid schedule working in office Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and working remote Wednesday and Friday.
- Monday-Thursday are 9 hours and Fridays are 4 hours.
- And will require on call / after-hours support as needed.